When Facebook was down, here's how Twitter lapped it up!

Social networking siteFacebook crashed on Wednesday night and prevented nearly one billion users from accessing the site.

The site's homepage read, “Sorry, something went wrong.” It further read, "We’re working on getting this fixed as soon as we can.”

Facebook statement read as follows:

“Earlier today we encountered an error while making an infrastructure configuration change that briefly made it difficult for people to access Facebook. We immediately discovered the issue and fixed it, and everyone should now be able to connect. We apologize for the inconvenience and will thoroughly investigate this issue so we can learn from it and ensure that Facebook is there when people need it.”

People from around the world took their complaints to Twitter and here's how the events unfolded: